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it's always the same damn tradeoff do

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you want performance or portability in a

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laptop well ASUS thinks they have solved

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both of these problems by creating a laptop that is only 1 and 12 mm thicker

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than a MacBook Pro but houses a freaking

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GTX 1080 graphics card but even if you

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can cram all of that Hardware into a

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form factor like this can a machine this

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thin possibly get the most out of those

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components not quite but it gets close

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enough to watch the video and see how well they

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did cyber power PCS line up of gaming

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desktops feature Intel's 7th generation core i7 processors check them out at the

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link below the Rog zephrus looks and feels

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special and is possibly the most uh 2017

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laptop that we've ever seen almost all

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the boxes are checked it's thin it's

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light especially for a gaming laptop and

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there is plenty of brushed aluminum and RGB lighting there is is a tiny bit of

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flex around the keyboard and screen but

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for something this thin the chassis is impressively rigid so full marks here I

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also feel like this might be some of the best industrial design to come out of

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ASUS so far it strikes a wonderful Middle Ground between premium gamery and

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professional and honestly I don't think you'd feel weird pulling it out of a

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backpack a briefcase or even a trendy messenger bag

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looking a little closelier when you open the zephrus you can see why it's named

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for the Greek god of the West Wind and bringer of light spring this 6 mm Gap at

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the back is the one somewhat flimsy

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feeling thing on this device but it serves a couple of

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purposes inclining the laptop slightly

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for a more comfortable typing experience and helping it move warm wait did I say

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warm sorry I mean hot hot air away from

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the components crammed into this puppy

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is an NVIDIA GTX 1080 an Intel Core

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i77700 HQ a 500 GB NVMe SSD to boot and

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up to 24 gigs of ddr4 RAM although North

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American models will ship with 16 gigs

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IO wise the zephrus strikes a great balance again

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thin enough to be very portable but thick enough that you can fit three

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full-sized USB type A's Thunderbolt 3

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HDMI and a headphone jack ASUS even

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Chucks a USB to Ethernet adapter in the box so you don't have to game over

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Wi-Fi but and I feel like we need to get

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this out of the way pretty early in the review the zephrus doesn't defy the laws

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of physics and when we hit it with a full synthetic load the thermal solution

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got overwhelmed and we did experience

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some thermal throttling a lot of thermal

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throttling with that said in a more realistic load like actual games at room

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temperature both our CPU and GPU put up

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a much stronger showing now as some of you have probably

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figured out by now at 1500 MHz the max Q

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GTX x 1080 in here is probably not going

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to keep Pace with a full-size desktop one or even a full TDP mobile one the

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kind you'd find in bulkier gaming laptops but it's still enough to Crush

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games at the native 1080p resolution and

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120 HZ refresh rate of the IPS g-sync

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display it Trails its 1080 Brethren by

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anywhere from 7 to as much as 20% but it

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should be noted that compared to the bigger heavier Alienware 15 it's 10 to

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15% faster so it's 1080 hasn't been

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downclocked to the point where you might as well have saved a few bucks and gone

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with a 1070 Acoustics were another

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strong point it's very impressive how ASUS was able to keep a laptop this thin

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so quiet it's easily one of the quietest gaming laptops that we've tested with it

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not even being in the same ballpark as the g71 vi went under load but also not

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particularly loud are the speakers which along with the webcam get a solid fine

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out of 10 rating the keyboard though is

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both quiet and comfortable it features full RGB lighting with two zones and the

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throw on the keys is short but they provide enough feedback that I never

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questioned whether I actually pressed the key at a desk with the thankfully

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included wrist rest it feels amazing but

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on your lap the position of the keyboard means that some folks will have a bit

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more difficulty balancing it at first but it's actually surprisingly easy to

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get used to and at any rate you won't have to worry about using it on your lap

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for very long the zephrus doesn't use

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Optimus technology to switch to onboard Graphics at idle so the battery life is

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abominable even while performing money mundane tasks and the numpad trackpad

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combo doesn't get great marks either I could get used to the position

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but the shape just kind of sucks I

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understand why they did it under the normal keyboard area is where you'll

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find all that juicy Hardware with swappable sodm and storage slots which

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is nice but I don't have to like it

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thankfully though ASUS includes a decent gaming mouse in the box so I would

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recommend just using that all in all if

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nothing else the ASUS zephrus feels like something new sure it doesn't offer the

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best performance available but if that's what you're going for get a desktop

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because in as close to an Apples to Apples comparison as we could find the

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value of this little beast is actually pretty compelling if you're willing to

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